California IN BRIEF : SACRAMENTO : Sierra Club Proposes State Growth Plan
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The Sierra Club proposed a state growth management strategy that would threaten two cherished elements of the “California Dream”--the automobile and unattached single-family homes. “There are not a whole lot of options right now,” Michael Paparian, the environmentalist group’s state director, said at a Capitol news conference. Paparian released a report urging the state to create a California growth plan to promote clean air, energy efficiency, affordable housing and the protection of open space. To do that, the 30-page report, “Policy Before Planning: Solving California’s Slow Growth Problem,” proposed to curb suburban sprawl and smog with high-density housing and public transit.
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